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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






2. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






3. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






4. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






5. How many calories/gram is protein?






6. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






7. Where can you get more vitamin D?






8. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






9. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






10. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






11. When does BMR decrease?






12. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






13. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






14. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






15. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






16. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






17. What function is vitamin D?






18. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






19. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






20. What type of people need extra protein?






21. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






22. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






23. What is the function of vitamin C?






24. What are healthy sources of fats?






25. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






26. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






27. Sources of fats






28. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






29. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






30. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






31. What is RDA of protein?






32. The higher the BMR a client has --






33. What is normal albumin levels?






34. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






35. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






36. Name six sources of grains






37. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






38. What foods have high quality protein?






39. What does DASH stand for?






40. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






41. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






42. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






43. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






44. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






45. When does BMR increase?






46. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






47. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






48. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






49. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






50. Fats can lead to some medical problems